The dark humor showcasing wild scenarios that seem ever so plausible while at the same time critiquing our present societies acceptance of norms is exactly what Spielberg achieves. This is a good book that I thoroughly enjoyed reading. The realities Spielberg paints for the reader are fantastic yet believable, which allows for one to be wholly enveloped in the worlds created. In Apocrypha a runner is the only person who...
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Peter Spielberg presents seven stories all absurd and unrealistic, yet completely relevant as responses to contemporary modernity. Being one who is not a great fan of stories containing alternate realities and situations that are unlikely at best, I was surprised to find myself affected by this collection of stories. The high points of the collection are undoubtedly "Apocrypha", an interesting commentary on modern society's...
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Spielberg did a wonderful job of creating these fictions of altered reality and making them real to the reader. Each story addresses an issue of our reality and takes it to an extreme through fiction. I, personally, enjoyed the reoccurring theme of sleeping/dreams and how the characters (in each story) came to an epiphany or a personal conclusion after experiencing the effects of the altered state of reality. These stories,...
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